The Essential Sly & the Family Stone

Compilation by Sly & the Family Stone

Released 11 March 2003

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Underdog
    3:59
    3.0 ★
  • 2
    I Cannot Make It
    3:19
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Dance to the Music
    3:00
    4.2 ★
  • 4
    Are You Ready?
    2:50
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Fun
    2:21
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    M’Lady
    2:46
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Life
    3:00
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    Love City
    2:44
    4.5 ★
  • 9
    Stand!
    3:08
    3.5 ★
  • 10
    Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
    5:59
    4.5 ★
  • 11
    I Want to Take You Higher
    5:23
    4.0 ★
  • 12
    Somebody’s Watching You
    3:21
    3.5 ★
  • 13
    Sing a Simple Song
    3:57
    4.0 ★
  • 14
    Everyday People
    2:22
    4.2 ★
  • 15
    You Can Make It If You Try
    3:38
    3.6 ★
  • 16
    Hot Fun in the Summertime
    2:38
    3.6 ★
  • 17
    Everybody Is a Star
    3:05
    3.0 ★
  • 18
    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
    4:48
    4.6 ★
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Family Affair
    3:05
    4.4 ★
  • 2
    Luv n’ Haight
    4:03
    3.5 ★
  • 3
    Poet
    3:03
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    (You Caught Me) Smilin’
    2:56
    3.0 ★
  • 5
    Runnin’ Away
    2:54
    3.5 ★
  • 6
    Brave & Strong
    3:30
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Just Like a Baby
    5:13
    3.8 ★
  • 8
    Thank You for Talkin’ to Me, Africa
    7:18
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    In Time
    5:49
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    If You Want Me to Stay
    3:01
    4.0 ★
  • 11
    Frisky
    3:11
    3.0 ★
  • 12
    Skin I’m In
    2:53
    3.0 ★
  • 13
    Babies Makin’ Babies
    3:39
    3.0 ★
  • 14
    If It Were Left Up to Me
    2:00
    2.0 ★
  • 15
    Time for Livin’
    3:17
    4.0 ★
  • 16
    Loose Booty
    3:47
    4.5 ★
  • 17
    I Get High on You
    3:13

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Release credits

  • background vocals [1], trumpet [1, 9-16]
  • background vocals [1], guitar [1, 9-16], vocal [9-16]
  • drums (drum set) [1, 9-16]
  • background vocals [1], saxophone [1, 9-16], vocal [9-15]
  • background vocals [1], bass [1], bass guitar [9-16], vocal [9-16]
  • keyboard [9-15], vocal [9-16]
  • guitar [9-15], keyboard [1, 9-15], lead vocals [1], piano [16], producer [2.7, 1.1, 1.6], vocal [9-16]

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